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- Les Graff (1936 – , Canadian) 5
- Barbara Spohr (1955 – 1987, Canadian) 2
- Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian) 2
- Alison Rossiter (1953 – , American) 1
- Allan King (1948 – , Canadian) 1
- Catherine Perehudoff Fowler (1958 – , Canadian) 1
- Donald Curran (1955 – ) 1
- Edward William Godwin (1933 – 2013, Canadian) 1
- James (Sr.) Simpson (1877 – 1972, Canadian) 1
- Janet Holly Middleton (1922 – 2018, Canadian) 1
- Sasa 1
- Sitting Wind (1925 – 2002, Canadian) 1
Lake near Jasper, Canadian Rockies
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactcur.02.01
- Artist
- Donald Curran (1955 – )
- Date
- 2007
- Medium
- on board
- Catalogue Number
- CuR.02.01
- Description
- An oil painting on board, unframed. The top-half of the painting comprises the brown and beige shoreline, the red and white boathouse, green coniferous trees, the mountains with snow-covered peaks and the blue sky with horizontal mauve and purple clouds. The bottom half of the painting comprises th…
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- Artist
- Donald Curran (1955 – )
- Title
- Lake near Jasper, Canadian Rockies
- Date
- 2007
- Medium
- on board
- Dimensions
- 20.3 x 24.5 cm
- Description
- An oil painting on board, unframed. The top-half of the painting comprises the brown and beige shoreline, the red and white boathouse, green coniferous trees, the mountains with snow-covered peaks and the blue sky with horizontal mauve and purple clouds. The bottom half of the painting comprises the lake and on the viewer’s left, the rocky shoreline and the top-half reflected in the water: the boathouse, the mountains behind, the trees and the sky. The artist signature is in the rhc: DONALD CURRAN 2007. Au verso top printed in pen “LAKE NEAR JASPER CANADIAN ROCKIES” signed in script underneath “Donald Curran 2007”.
- Credit
- Gift of Kerry Guenter, 2007
- Catalogue Number
- CuR.02.01
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Beaver Pond, Banff Area
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactgot.02.01
- Date
- 1978
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- GoT.02.01
- Description
- The painting of the water and foliage covers the picture from frame to frame.
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- Title
- Beaver Pond, Banff Area
- Date
- 1978
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 43.7 x 59.5 cm
- Description
- The painting of the water and foliage covers the picture from frame to frame.
- Credit
- Purchased from Canadian Art Gallery, Canmore, 1978
- Catalogue Number
- GoT.02.01
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Mountain Series #8
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactgrl.01.08
- Date
- 2000 – 2000
- Medium
- oil on masonite board
- Catalogue Number
- GrL.01.08
- Description
- An oil sketch of a mountain landscape with a lake in the foreground. The primary colours used are blues, greens, greys, and brown tones. The sky is dominated by thick bands of grey paint, while the middle of the work is predominately green. The bottom of the work is in shades of blue, with a brown …
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- Title
- Mountain Series #8
- Date
- 2000 – 2000
- Medium
- oil on masonite board
- Dimensions
- 40.5 x 40.5 x cm
- Description
- An oil sketch of a mountain landscape with a lake in the foreground. The primary colours used are blues, greens, greys, and brown tones. The sky is dominated by thick bands of grey paint, while the middle of the work is predominately green. The bottom of the work is in shades of blue, with a brown triangle in the blhc. The artist’s signature is in the brhc in green paint.
- Credit
- Gift of Les Graff, Bashaw, 2006
- Catalogue Number
- GrL.01.08
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Abraham Lake/East
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactgrl.01.17
- Date
- 2001 – 2001
- Medium
- oil on masonite board
- Catalogue Number
- GrL.01.17
- Description
- An oil sketch of a mountain landscape. The primary colours used are blue, orange, red and brown. The image is composed of a mountain range in the background, with a body of water and a segment of land in the foreground. The artist’s signature is in the brhc in grey paint. Au verso, written in black…
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- Title
- Abraham Lake/East
- Date
- 2001 – 2001
- Medium
- oil on masonite board
- Dimensions
- 40 x 40.5 cm
- Description
- An oil sketch of a mountain landscape. The primary colours used are blue, orange, red and brown. The image is composed of a mountain range in the background, with a body of water and a segment of land in the foreground. The artist’s signature is in the brhc in grey paint. Au verso, written in black ink in the trhc, “45/W”.
- Credit
- Gift of Les Graff, Bashaw, 2006
- Catalogue Number
- GrL.01.17
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West End of Abraham Lake
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactgrl.01.31
- Date
- 2003 – 2003
- Medium
- oil on masonite board
- Catalogue Number
- GrL.01.31
- Description
- An oil sketch of a mountain landscape. The primary colours used are green, yellow, blue, white and beige. The centre of the piece is dominated by a yellow and green land mass, below which are two beige sections. On the bottom left there is a blue sections representing the lake and on the bottom rig…
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- Title
- West End of Abraham Lake
- Date
- 2003 – 2003
- Medium
- oil on masonite board
- Dimensions
- 35.6 x 45.7 cm
- Description
- An oil sketch of a mountain landscape. The primary colours used are green, yellow, blue, white and beige. The centre of the piece is dominated by a yellow and green land mass, below which are two beige sections. On the bottom left there is a blue sections representing the lake and on the bottom right is a white section. The artist’s signature is in the brhc in beige paint. Au verso, written in black ink in the tlhc, “47/W”.
- Subject
- landscape
- lake
- Lake Abraham
- mountain
- Credit
- Gift of Les Graff, Bashaw, 2007
- Catalogue Number
- GrL.01.31
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Sand Bar - Abraham Lake
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactgrl.01.37
- Date
- 2005 – 2005
- Medium
- oil on masonite board
- Catalogue Number
- GrL.01.37
- Description
- An oil sketch of a mountain landscape and a lake. The primary colours used are blue, green, brown and pink. The top third of the work is blue, with two horizontal sections of cloud that evenly divide the image. The mountains rise from the left and right, and meet low in the centre. The foreground i…
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- Title
- Sand Bar - Abraham Lake
- Date
- 2005 – 2005
- Medium
- oil on masonite board
- Dimensions
- 40.5 x 40.5 cm
- Description
- An oil sketch of a mountain landscape and a lake. The primary colours used are blue, green, brown and pink. The top third of the work is blue, with two horizontal sections of cloud that evenly divide the image. The mountains rise from the left and right, and meet low in the centre. The foreground is composed of green sandbars that intersect with the blue of the lake. The artist’s signature is in the brhc in green paint. Au verso, written in black ink in the tlhc, “49-N”.
- Credit
- Gift of Les Graff, Bashaw, 2008
- Catalogue Number
- GrL.01.37
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Abraham Lake #3
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactgrl.01.07
- Date
- 2000 – 2000
- Medium
- oil on masonite board
- Catalogue Number
- Grl.01.07
- Description
- An oil sketch of a lake landscape. The primary colours used are green, grey, blue and brown. The sky is dominated with thick grey strokes of colour. Surrounding the water at the top and bottom are thick strokes of green. The blue of the water is a streak across the middle of the work. The artist’s …
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- Title
- Abraham Lake #3
- Date
- 2000 – 2000
- Medium
- oil on masonite board
- Dimensions
- 40.5 x 40.5 cm
- Description
- An oil sketch of a lake landscape. The primary colours used are green, grey, blue and brown. The sky is dominated with thick grey strokes of colour. Surrounding the water at the top and bottom are thick strokes of green. The blue of the water is a streak across the middle of the work. The artist’s signature is in the brhc in green paint.
- Credit
- Gift of Les Graff, Bashaw, 2006
- Catalogue Number
- Grl.01.07
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Sunrise on Lake Louise, Banff National Park, Alberta
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactkga.18.01
- Date
- 2001
- Medium
- silver gelatin print
- Catalogue Number
- KgA.18.01
- Description
- black and white image of Lake Louise
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- Title
- Sunrise on Lake Louise, Banff National Park, Alberta
- Date
- 2001
- Medium
- silver gelatin print
- Dimensions
- 91.44 x 152.40 cm
- Description
- black and white image of Lake Louise
- Subject
- Lake Louise
- Banff National Park
- lake
- mountains
- Credit
- Gift of Allen King, Calgary, 2017
- Catalogue Number
- KgA.18.01
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- Date
- 1978
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- MiJ.05.07
- Description
- A watercolour depicting a mountain landscape, with a lake below (Lake O’Hara), painted in a very loose and free style. The bottom third is a blue lake with grey and white reflections from the banks, mountains, talus slopes, and trees above. The mid two-thirds depicts sparse trees, trail, and slopes…
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- Title
- Lake O’Hara
- Date
- 1978
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 55.0 x 71.0 cm
- Description
- A watercolour depicting a mountain landscape, with a lake below (Lake O’Hara), painted in a very loose and free style. The bottom third is a blue lake with grey and white reflections from the banks, mountains, talus slopes, and trees above. The mid two-thirds depicts sparse trees, trail, and slopes to the left, waterfalls (Seven Veils), snow-covered mountain with glacier in the background (Mt. Oesa), mid-to-far right a mountain in varying shades of grey rising to almost the top of the painting (Opabin Mountain). Top portion blue sky with clouds. The extreme bottom and right hand side is left mostly unpainted.Signed, in script, blue watercolour paint bottom right hand corner “Middleton 78”. The lake bleeds into the signature.
- Credit
- Purchased from Willock & Sax, 2013
- Catalogue Number
- MiJ.05.07
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Low Clouds and Mountains
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactpec.05.05
- Date
- 2007
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- PeC.05.05
- Description
- watercolour landscape, top two thirds are unidentifiable mountains with cloud coverage. Bottom third are evergreen trees around a body of water.
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- Title
- Low Clouds and Mountains
- Date
- 2007
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 55.9 x 76.2 cm
- Description
- watercolour landscape, top two thirds are unidentifiable mountains with cloud coverage. Bottom third are evergreen trees around a body of water.
- Credit
- Gift of Catherine Perehudoff Fowler, Saskatoon, 2017
- Catalogue Number
- PeC.05.05
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The Stump-Lake of the Woods
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactphw.04.63
- Date
- 1978
- Medium
- print on paper
- Catalogue Number
- PhW.04.63
- Description
- Same as PhW.04.10 and PhW.04.48. One of a seven part portfolio The Canadian Scene assembled in 1928, Portfolio #273. A stump with long bare branches is in bottom left of picture, some green foliage behind it. A lake in bottom half of picture, hills and trees on far side of the lake form the horizon…
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- Title
- The Stump-Lake of the Woods
- Date
- 1978
- Medium
- print on paper
- Dimensions
- 19.5 x 25.3 cm
- Description
- Same as PhW.04.10 and PhW.04.48. One of a seven part portfolio The Canadian Scene assembled in 1928, Portfolio #273. A stump with long bare branches is in bottom left of picture, some green foliage behind it. A lake in bottom half of picture, hills and trees on far side of the lake form the horizon. A grey sky covers the top two thirds of the picture, a yellow sunset is evident on horizon right. Printed on Goyu paper from eight cherry-wood blocks.
- Subject
- lake
- stump
- Walter J. Phillips
- Credit
- Gift of Nicholas Morant, Banff, 2006
- Catalogue Number
- PhW.04.63
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The Rum Runners
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactroa.13.01
- Date
- 1976
- Medium
- gelatin silver on paper
- Catalogue Number
- RoA.13.01
- Description
- Colour: black and white photo with blue and pink. Photograph of three women sitting in the stern of a boat with an awning shading them from the sun. The edges of the photo are decorated with flower and butterfly images.
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- Title
- The Rum Runners
- Date
- 1976
- Medium
- gelatin silver on paper
- Dimensions
- 12.7 x 13.6 cm
- Description
- Colour: black and white photo with blue and pink. Photograph of three women sitting in the stern of a boat with an awning shading them from the sun. The edges of the photo are decorated with flower and butterfly images.
- Credit
- Gift of Anne (and John) Ewen, Banff, 1977
- Catalogue Number
- RoA.13.01
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- Artist
- Sasa
- Date
- 1971
- Medium
- oil on canvas board
- Catalogue Number
- SaS.02.01
- Description
- General colour: greys. One inch up from bottom in the center is a black pool of water. Above that to the left is a group of trees. The pale blue sky comes down at the top center in a wide U shape. The rocks are reaching to the top of the picture on either side.
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- Artist
- Sasa
- Title
- Sentinal Pass
- Date
- 1971
- Medium
- oil on canvas board
- Dimensions
- 25.5 x 20.4 cm
- Description
- General colour: greys. One inch up from bottom in the center is a black pool of water. Above that to the left is a group of trees. The pale blue sky comes down at the top center in a wide U shape. The rocks are reaching to the top of the picture on either side.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1971
- Catalogue Number
- SaS.02.01
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Consolation Lake
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactsij.05.46
- Date
- 1971
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- SiJ.05.46
- Description
- Vivid colours depicting a lake in the foreground, green growth to the front and right of water, dark trees and mountain slope. Multi coloured bank, growth trees to the left. Varied coloured mountains in the background, yellow and blue sky.
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- Title
- Consolation Lake
- Date
- 1971
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 21.0 x 27.1 cm
- Description
- Vivid colours depicting a lake in the foreground, green growth to the front and right of water, dark trees and mountain slope. Multi coloured bank, growth trees to the left. Varied coloured mountains in the background, yellow and blue sky.
- Subject
- landscape
- Canadian Rockies
- lake
- mountain
- Credit
- Gift of Audrey Campbell, Banff, 1991
- Catalogue Number
- SiJ.05.46
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- Date
- 1978
- Medium
- photograph on cardboard
- Catalogue Number
- SpB.18.27
- Description
- A colour landscape photograph. A mountain in the background fills just over half of the photograph. At the top right, a clear sky above the mountain peaks is visible, diminishing to the left, behind another mountain. The bottom half and foreground of the photograph is a placid lake, and a small pie…
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- Title
- Lake O’Hara
- Date
- 1978
- Medium
- photograph on cardboard
- Dimensions
- 47.0 x 31.0 cm
- Description
- A colour landscape photograph. A mountain in the background fills just over half of the photograph. At the top right, a clear sky above the mountain peaks is visible, diminishing to the left, behind another mountain. The bottom half and foreground of the photograph is a placid lake, and a small piece of the shore, rocks and a few small trees visible extending out into the lake. In the bottom right hand corner of the photo, written in black ink, is the title, year and artist signature, “Lake O’Hara ‘78 B. Spohr”. Au verso there is a silver sticker at the bottom in the centre with black print, “MOUNT CORY FRAMES PO 1900 - 217 Bear St. BANFF, ALBERTA T0L 0C0 Phone (403) 762-5155”. Beside the sticker to the right is writing in pencil, “ * one corner 18 5/8 other 18 3/4 } not printed evenly”.
- Subject
- landscape
- mountain
- lake
- Barbara Spohr
- Credit
- Gift of Michael Laub, Banff, 2007
- Catalogue Number
- SpB.18.27
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- Date
- 1978
- Medium
- photograph on cardboard
- Catalogue Number
- SpB.18.28
- Description
- A colour landscape photograph. Mountains in the background fill just over half of the photograph. There is a light haze/fog over the mountains. Above the mountain peaks a strip of clear sky is visible. The sun is rising out of frame on viewers right. There are four peaks layering in front of one a…
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- Title
- Lake O’Hara
- Date
- 1978
- Medium
- photograph on cardboard
- Dimensions
- 47.0 x 31.0 cm
- Description
- A colour landscape photograph. Mountains in the background fill just over half of the photograph. There is a light haze/fog over the mountains. Above the mountain peaks a strip of clear sky is visible. The sun is rising out of frame on viewers right. There are four peaks layering in front of one another and the closest one looks like a hill with trees on it. The bottom half and foreground of the photograph is a placid lake with a faint reflection of the mountains in it. On the horizon line, where the base of the mountains and the lake meet is a thick line of fog running across the photograph. In the bottom right hand corner of the photo, written in black ink, is the title, year and artist signature, “B. Spohr O’Hara ‘78”. Au verso there is a silver sticker at the bottom in the centre with black print, “MOUNT CORY FRAMES PO 1900 - 217 Bear St. BANFF, ALBERTA T0L 0C0 Phone (403) 762-5155”.
- Subject
- mountains
- lake
- landscape
- Barbara Spohr
- Credit
- Gift of Michael Laub, Banff, 2007
- Catalogue Number
- SpB.18.28
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Small lake in Mountains
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactunk.03.13
- Artist
- Unknown
- Date
- 1978
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- UnK.03.13
- Description
- A pencil drawing of a small lake in the foreground, the immediate foreground is marshy and some trees, this surrounds the lake; mountains in background; a few clouds indicated. A small brass plaque with the drawing reads: To Lillian Gest In Appreciation The Lake O'Hara Trails Club 1979.
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- Artist
- Unknown
- Title
- Small lake in Mountains
- Date
- 1978
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 22.5; 26.7 x 26.7; 32.1 cm
- Description
- A pencil drawing of a small lake in the foreground, the immediate foreground is marshy and some trees, this surrounds the lake; mountains in background; a few clouds indicated. A small brass plaque with the drawing reads: To Lillian Gest In Appreciation The Lake O'Hara Trails Club 1979.
- Credit
- Gift of Lillian Gest, Philadelphia, USA, 1986
- Catalogue Number
- UnK.03.13
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- Date
- 1971
- Medium
- oil on canvas board
- Catalogue Number
- WiS.02.09
- Description
- Painting of blue lake with trees on shore in middle of a green meadow. Rocks in foreground. Rolling hills and grey mountains in background. Gradient blue sky with white clouds. “SITTING WIND” lower right corner. On back: “By the Lake. F. Kaquitts (Sitting Wind) Indian name” Sept. 1971.”
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- Title
- By The Lake
- Date
- 1971
- Medium
- oil on canvas board
- Dimensions
- 30.5 x 40.5 cm
- Description
- Painting of blue lake with trees on shore in middle of a green meadow. Rocks in foreground. Rolling hills and grey mountains in background. Gradient blue sky with white clouds. “SITTING WIND” lower right corner. On back: “By the Lake. F. Kaquitts (Sitting Wind) Indian name” Sept. 1971.”
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WiS.02.09
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Northern Lake, near Rankin
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyc.01.278
- Date
- 1970
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- WyC.01.278
- Description
- In the lower third of the picture is an expanse of land, coloured with touches of brown, ochre, red-brown and green. Three pools of water are visible: two are lines placed near the horizon, and the third, closer to the viewer, is shaped like an oval. The water is steel-grey blue. The sky above the …
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- Title
- Northern Lake, near Rankin
- Date
- 1970
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 25.4 x 30.3 cm
- Description
- In the lower third of the picture is an expanse of land, coloured with touches of brown, ochre, red-brown and green. Three pools of water are visible: two are lines placed near the horizon, and the third, closer to the viewer, is shaped like an oval. The water is steel-grey blue. The sky above the horizon is light blue, while horizontal bands of violet-grey clouds hang above it.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyC.01.278
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Looking South from Inukshuk Hill, near Rankin
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyc.01.279
- Date
- 1970
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- WyC.01.279
- Description
- The foreground contains exposed rock, coloured violet-grey, with areas of ground (composed of touches of brown, red-brown and green). In the middleground, thin lines of exposed rock lie in light grey-blue water. The horizon is a line of violet-grey. The upper two-thirds of the composition contains …
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- Title
- Looking South from Inukshuk Hill, near Rankin
- Date
- 1970
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 25.4 x 30.3 cm
- Description
- The foreground contains exposed rock, coloured violet-grey, with areas of ground (composed of touches of brown, red-brown and green). In the middleground, thin lines of exposed rock lie in light grey-blue water. The horizon is a line of violet-grey. The upper two-thirds of the composition contains a mass of grey and blue-grey clouds. This mass is partially divided in two by a horizontal edge of higher blue-grey cloud meeting some lower light grey clouds.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyC.01.279
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